81289199-Sustainable Urban Mobility - Air Quality, Climate Action and Accessibility

Description

In partnership with Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) of Government of India, GIZ will be implementing project titled "Sustainable Urban Mobility - Air quality, Climate Protection and Access (SUM-ACA)". The project has been commissioned the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Focus of this technical cooperation project is to promote interventions that can be pursued and anchored in the long term and strengthened by the project on a broad scale by its partners such as MoHUA, states, city administrations and educational institutions. National guidelines and standardised procedures are planned to be disseminated through qualified actors who act as multipliers themselves. Framework conditions, procedures and instruments, training and further education services developed with the support of the project will promote the planning and implementation of integrated urban mobility systems beyond the duration of the project. Lot 1: In 2019, the Indian Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA) and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) signed a joint declaration of intent on Green Urban Mobility Partnership (GUMP). Both countries agreed to collaborate more closely to transform urban transport systems through more efficient, people-centric and low-carbon mobility solutions. BMZ agreed to make available concessional loans in the volume of one billion Euros through KfW Development Bank over a period of five years up to 2023. The funds are to be used for sustainable improvements to urban mobility infrastructure. Measures range from city bus transport systems, metros, and non-motorised transport to multimodal integration. In addition, the GIZ is providing technical cooperation to national, state and local institutions and decision-makers for designing sustainable, inclusive and smart solutions for easy and affordable mobility. As part of the GUMP partnership, Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and its Indian partner ministries are jointly implementing several green mobility projects under its urban transport portfolio in India. The objective of these projects is to improve the planning and implementation of sustainable urban transport in selected Indian cities. In partnership with Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), GIZ will be implementing project titled "Sustainable Urban Mobility - Air quality, Climate Protection and Access (SUM-ACA)". This project is a follow-up to its predecessor project - "Integrated Sustainable Urban Transport Systems for Smart Cities in India" (SMART-SUT). SMART-SUT has already generated practical examples of sustainable urban transport with proven mitigation effects in the cities of Bhubaneswar, Coimbatore, and Kochi. There are also findings for improving access to the public transport, which are being taken up and further developed. The SMART-SUT project has also developed stable and long-term partner relationships at all levels, which form an ideal basis for the implementation of SUM-ACA. SUM-ACA will take learnings from SMART-SUT and will further focus on building and strengthening capacities in order to address the aspects of climate protection, air pollution control and access to mobility in a holistic manner. It also focuses on strategic competence development for the planning and implementation of integrated mobility plans, in cooperation with partner cities and the states. The measures of the project are aimed at specialists and decision makers in state/city administrations, as well as the relevant national ministries. In addition, the development of institutional know-how shall be promoted in order to cooperate with relevant actors from different departments and/or authorities across sectors and also to involve civil society groups in planning processes. The project shall strengthen the capacities of academic and vocational education and training institutions and will enable them to develop, implement and integrate training and further provide educational offers on climate protection, air quality, access to mobility and green recovery. In brief, the project aims to address diverse range of urban transport issues such as public transport improvement, non-motorized transport, road safety, multi-modal integration, electric mobility, air pollution, GHG emissions, data analytics, mobility as a service and so on. The project will have a technical team resposible for developing various project activities including reports, training materials, presentations, and so on - all of which contribute to enhancing the impact and visibility of the work being done by GIZ and its partners.